You can migrate queries from CICS® IA V2.2 plug-in to CICS IA V3.1 plug-in for CICS Explorer®.
When you initially install the CICS IA plug-in, a queries folder is created in the workspace. This folder is located in C:\Documents and settings\username\.cicsexplorer\com.ibm.cics.ia.runtime. To run previously defined queries, you must copy these queries into the queries folder, or into a child folder under the queries folder. If you copy hidden folders from your workspace the folders become visible in the CICS IA plug-in. You can copy individual queries or folders of queries. You must not rename query files.
The default Queries view displays the two folders, Supplied Samples and User Queries, which are initially created under the queries folder. All queries that you copy into these folders in your file system are displayed in the Queries windows, after you click the Refresh icon or restart the CICS IA plug-in.
Queries created in the version 3.1 plug-in are automatically migrated to a new format when the 3.2 plug-in is started. You do not need to take any action. The migrated queries are identical in behavior, and the folder hierarchy is preserved. A copy of the original queries are backed up in case of a migration error.
The IA 3.2 plug-in is now able to connect to an IA 3.1 database. When connecting to an IA 3.1 database certain features, available using an IA 3.2 database, are not supported:
If you want to use multiple versions of the CICS IA database, you must have the appropriate version of the IA plug-in installed to separate installs of the CICS Explorer, because you cannot install multiple versions of the IA plug-in to the same CICS Explorer.
In addition, once you have used the IA version 3.2 plug-in on a workspace that has previously been used by a version 3.1 plug-in, any queries are migrated to a new format, and are not available for subsequent use by a version 3.1 plug-in on the same workspace.
Recommendation: If you want to use both versions 3.1 and 3.2 of the IA plug-in at the same time, use separate installs of Explorer AND separate workspace locations. Start the Explorer with the "-data C:/path/to/workspace" argument to launch with a specific workspace location.
If you have used the IA version 3.2 plug-in on a workspace which has migrated the queries to the new format, you can retrieve the version 3.1 format query files from the "../Interdependency Analyzer Queries/backup/" directory within the workspace. These can be copied to another workspace to use with the IA version 3.1 plug-in.